IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mummy
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1997CO049004
  • User Pedon ID: 97CO049004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1997CO049004
  • User Site Association ID: 8896
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - MR2
  • Transect Stop Number - 1
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 98P0309
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10580
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 40.4638901
  • Std. Longitude: -105.8788910
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO049—Grand
  • MLRA: 48A—Southern Rocky Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO651—Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, Parts of Boulder, Grand, and Larimer Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40105-D8—Mount Richthofen, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Lee A. Neve, Melissa Trechnik, Steve Blecker
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, micaceous Humic Dystrocryepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mummy
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mummy
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, paramicaceous Typic Cryumbrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/19/1997
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/19/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 1060-100
  • Plant Association Name: Poal2
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, tundra
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    GERO2

    PHAL2

    POAL2

    POBI6

    SENEC

    TRMA3

    VASC

    Geum rossii

    Phleum alpinum

    Poa alpina

    Polygonum bistortoides

    Senecio

    Trifolium macrocephalum

    Vaccinium scoparium

    Ross' avens

    alpine timothy

    alpine bluegrass

    American bistort

    ragwort

    largehead clover

    grouse whortleberry

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    umbric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—25

    25—152

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    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    38

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    3505

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    131

    1016

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    A—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; gravelly loam; 14 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 fine and medium roots; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P01881
    Bw1—25 to 53 centimeters (9.8 to 20.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; very gravelly loam; 15 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P01882
    Bw2—53 to 152 centimeters (20.9 to 59.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), light brown (7.5YR 6/4), dry; very gravelly loam; 12 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 98P01883